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#VoiceActors: We want to hear your auditions! Love seeing the variety still coming in. All shares are appreciated and welcome! #CastingCall #VA #Ireland

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In 1970 a group of art students visited Dingle & painted portraits of local fishermen; this is my grandad Paddy Brosnan, by R. O’Connell. Anyone any idea where the artist might be now? #speirgorm @aoifeg.bsky.social @dinglelit.bsky.social @ciaraioch.bsky.social

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// Irish Traditional Music Archive Announces 'Shared Island Flute Series' // ow.ly/baYC50UZbNj All events are free and take place at ITMA's premises from 14 to 19 February.

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A great opportunity to work with Traditional Arts at the Arts Council. Please apply!!

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Dithered about this and looked into Patreon etc. but prefer to keep things un-paywalled, so there's a no-obligation, totally voluntary tip jar on my site if you like my doodles or newsletter, solely to allow the people who asked for it tide me over until I kidnap a Medici www.ciaraioch.com/tip-jar

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Happy Imbolc 🌱

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The Biddy is an Irish folk tradition linked to Brigid’s Day and Imbolc, where groups wear white and handmade straw headpieces to travel around playing music while carrying a Brídeóg (a model Brigid in child form), warding off evil and bringing luck. It's still strong in parts of Kerry.

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"February-isn't-Spring" people, remove the coloniser from your mind

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For those interested in Brigid, an article i wrote for the Conversation last year! Lá (weekend!) Fhéile Bríde Shona! theconversation.com/brigids-day-...

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First of many!! #lálebríde

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Essay marking finished & settling into the snooker! Ó Murchú Abú ❤️ #masterssnooker

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Annual reminder that I need my head examined 🤣 Collecting rushes today for our students to make Brigid’s Crosses!

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On Friday, January 31st, Ruth Negga, Lisa Hannigan and I talk music and what it means to us with @sweetoblivion.bsky.social as part of Limerick festival All We Have Are Days. Join us at St. Mary’s Cathedral from 7.30pm. Lisa is also performing some songs. 🎟️: limetreebelltable.ie/events/ruth-...

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It wouldn’t be a Folklore lecture about St. Brigid without the lecturer including a work from (and very honourable mention) to that of @ciaraioch.bsky.social!

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In the last half hour of the day that’s in it, watch Oonagh Kearney’s glorious Oíche Nollaig na mBan x www.tyrellapictures.com/oiche-nollai...

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Such an important programme with @katiehannon.bsky.social highlighting the epidemic of domestic abuse, coercive control & the horrific murders of women in Ireland. On #NollaignamBan particularly poignant. How do we change this problem? Education/policy? @upfrontrte.bsky.social

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Harry Clarke, who was once described as ‘Ireland’s strangest genius’, died on this day in 1931, the Feast of the Epiphany. Twenty years previously and at the start of his career, Clarke had created this remarkable stained-glass panel as a competition piece for a national competition.

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Nollaig na mBan / Women's Christmas / an excuse to share some books by Irish women writers we love.

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It’s Nollaig na mBan tomorrow or Little Christmas (not Women’s Little Christmas!!) It has been celebrated in West Kerry in living memory & I think it’s great to see it being celebrated more widely now! An article I wrote last year on #nollaignamban theconversation.com/how-irelands...

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Over & out from Sráid Eoin Wran. Great ball night last night hosted by Johnny & Adam’s bar (Johnnys grandad was a Captain of Sráid Eoin which made us venture up Main St!) €2000 was donated to Kerry Cancer Bus & great tunes were played. Go mbeirimid beo ar an am seo arís 💙🤍

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In keeping with tradition….Sráid Eoin & Goat Street Abú. Go mbeirimid beo ar an am seo arís

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Sure, fireworks are cool, but have you ever tried ringing in the New Year the Kerry way, marching through the village of Annascaul at midnight with flaming sods of turf on pikes

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Daingean Uí Chúis Abú! We never died a winter yet!

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A piece I wrote for the conversation uk on the Wren tradition. Managed to mention other places besides Dingle too 🤣 theconversation.com/wrens-day-an...

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It's Wran's Day (yes it can be called Wran instead of Wren) and it still is widely celebrated in my home county of Kerry! More on its significance by @aoifeg.bsky.social: www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2... and below meself, mam and the late Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh at the Wran in Dingle a few years ago!

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The church of Damo! Another amazing night at Vicar Street!

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'Solstice' by Michael Longley

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Straws done! Roll on the Wran’s Day! Sráid Eoin Abú 💙🤍

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www.irishexaminer.com/food-columni... “Book of the year for my money is Irish Food History — a companion by Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire, and Ballymaloe Cookery School alumni Dorothy Cashman, with contributions from multiple scholars. A meticulously researched tome….” ☺️☺️☺️

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Gorgeous idea from the wonderful @kennysbookshop.bsky.social

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Delighted to announce our flute tutors for Cruinniú na bhFliúit 2025 in Baile Mhúirne:Sarah-Jane, John, Mike, Sylvain & Ciarán. I’ll only be teaching melancholic airs & rebellious marches. No in-between 🤣 Details on flutemeet.org

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We’re making straws with Sráid Eoin Wran on Saturday night in Chocs from 8! Fáilte roimh cách 💙🤍

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Leading figures from film, sport and activism were awarded with honorary degrees by @ucc.bsky.social last night. Jeremy Irons, Adi Roche, Lord David Puttnam and Dominic Casey were all recognised for their achievements at a special ceremony in UCC’s Aula Maxima www.ucc.ie/en/news/2024...

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The best colleagues at UCC Folklore!

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Comhgháirdeachas le @kneecapceol.bsky.social

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The best Irish-language books of 2024, another bumper year for all ages. A taster of the finest books as Gaeilge for adults and children published over the past year, selected by Áine Ní Ghlinn, the former Laureate na nÓg www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

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How Harry Clarke became one of Ireland's best loved artists. Siobhán Doyle profiles the much celebrated and admired artist ahead of new exhibition of his work at the National Museum www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

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That's right, the hugely successful #DingleLit Short Story Competition is back! An bhfuil gearrscéal ionat? Tá sé in am é a scaoileadh! Treoirlínte iontrála | Entry guidelines ansa www.dinglelit.ie 💻 #ShortStoryCompetition #ComórtasGearrscéalaíochta #Comórtas #Gearrscéal #ShortStory #DingleLit2025

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Thanks @byjimcarroll.bsky.social for having Liam Óg and myself in to chat about the Phoenix for Banter yesterday. Tráthnona deas I Foxys.

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Liam Óg & myself will be chatting all about the Phoenix with the brilliant Jim Carroll this afternoon as part of Banter @othervoiceslive.bsky.social Foxys at 5!

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Less than a week left to order pre-Christmas prints from www.ciaraioch.com going to the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand if you want to send them there as gifts for loved ones. If you want them as gifts for disliked ones, order them after this so they'll arrive too late, that'll annoy them.

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Kerry Kerry #GE24 Tinder 🤝 Unlikely to be a change to the five usual options

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